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Cranberry Jell-O® Salad with Walnuts

"This is my most requested recipe! It's a wonderful accompaniment to your Thanksgiving or Christmas menu."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 51 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

20 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Also mentioned in the method: egg white

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Empty the gelatin mix into a large heatproof bowl. Pour the boiling water over it and stir for about 2 minutes until the gelatin is completely dissolved.

  2. Add the whole berry cranberry sauce to the hot gelatin and stir until the sauce melts and the mixture is evenly combined.

  3. Refrigerate the mixture for about 30 to 45 minutes, until it thickens to the consistency of unbeaten egg whites.

  4. Peel and chop the oranges into small pieces, and dice the apple. Chop the walnuts if they are not already chopped.

  5. Fold the oranges, apple, and walnuts into the thickened gelatin mixture until evenly distributed.

  6. Transfer the mixture to a serving dish or mold. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or until firm and set.

  7. Unmold or spoon out to serve cold.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cranberry + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Cranberry + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cranberry + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cherry + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cherry, gelatin, berry, cranberry, sauce, orange, walnut):

  1. Vanillaabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Peachabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, gelatin, berry, cranberry, sauce, orange, walnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).